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Original
Description |
Gray 1844 : 7 |
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Type
Locality |
"India, Affghanistan [sic]"; specifically "Kabul", according to Gray (1844:iv) |
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Holotype |
BMNH 1947.3.4.3 |
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Original name |
Testudo horsfieldii |
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Common
name |
Central Asian Tortoise |
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Distribution |
From the region of the Caspian Sea, eastward through Kazakhstan (USSR) to western Xinjiang, China (PRC), and southward to Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan |
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Comments |
Subgenus Agrionemys. Reviewed by Smith (1931), Nikolsky (1915), Stubbs (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989), and Das (1991). The fact that this species hybridized with T. hermanni in captivity (Kirsche, 1984) suggests that the subgenera of Loveridge and Williams (1957) are invalid (see also Crumly, 1988, and Bour, 1988c). |
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